Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect the information we obtain from visitors to our website.
1. Information Collection and Use
At FV2M, we recognize the importance of your privacy. This section describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information. As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including details of your visits to our website, traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the website.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies. We use cookies, beacons, tags, and other tracking technologies to gather information about your browsing activities and to improve your experience on our site.
Use of Collected Information. The information we collect is used for various purposes, such as to provide and maintain our website, to notify you about changes to our website, to allow you to participate in interactive features of our website when you choose to do so, to provide customer support, to gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our website, to monitor the usage of our website, to detect, prevent and address technical issues.
For visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this section will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
By using our site, you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our website. You can choose to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us, but this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. We also will retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
2. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We are committed to protecting the privacy of our website users. This section outlines our policies regarding the sharing and disclosure of data collected from users of our website.
Compliance with Law. We will share personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. We do not sell, trade, lease, or rent personal identification information to others. We may disclose your personal information to third parties when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
Service Providers and Partners. We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as offering customer service. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
We may also share your information with our business partners for lawful business purposes, under strict confidentiality agreements. However, these partners do not have any independent right to share this information.
Legal Requests and National Security. We may also disclose personal information if required by law, including compliance with subpoenas, court orders, legal process, or government or law enforcement requests. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.
Corporate Transactions. In the event FV2M goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our site of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Aggregate Information. We may also share aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
User Consent. By using our site, you consent to our website’s privacy policy. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will update the Privacy Policy modification date below.
3. Security of Data
We are committed to protecting the security of your data. We implement a variety of security measures designed to maintain the safety of your personal information when you visit our website.
Measures and Protocols. We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site. Your personal information is kept on secure networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights and are required to keep the information confidential. Our systems are regularly monitored for potential vulnerabilities and attacks. We also conduct periodic reviews of our data collection, storage, processing practices, and security measures.
Compliance with Data Protection Laws. In compliance with U.S. data protection laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and others, we take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Should a data breach occur, we are prepared to take appropriate actions in accordance with applicable federal and state laws. This includes notifying you and any applicable regulators of a breach in a timely manner.
Limitation of Liability. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We do not accept liability for unintentional disclosure.
3. Cookies
To provide a tailored and individualized experience, our websites and applications might employ cookies and comparable technologies to gather and track your personal data. Cookies are small bits of information transferred from a Web server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard disk. They are used by us to recognize you and assist in your navigation of our sites during your visits. Cookies are capable of indicating visitor activity on a website and preserving your settings, eliminating the need for repetitive entry each time you visit. The adoption of cookies is fairly common. Internet browsers typically default to accepting cookies, but you have the option to configure your browser to alert you when receiving a cookie or to disable them.
Should you choose to block cookies from this site, you can adjust the settings in your browser. Be aware, however, that disabling cookies might impair the functionality of many websites. For detailed guidance on managing cookies through browsers, refer to All About Cookies. Additionally, you can reject Flash cookies from this site by utilizing Adobe’s Flash management tools. Google’s cookie usage can be declined by visiting Google’s Ad Settings.
Your use of this website implies your agreement to our use of cookies and similar technologies, as outlined in this Privacy Statement.
4. Third-Party Websites and Disclaimer of Liability
Our website may include hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than FV2M. These links are provided for your reference and convenience only.
We do not control these external websites and are not responsible for their contents, privacy policies, or practices. The inclusion of links to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators. Your use of and access to these third-party websites is at your own risk. FV2M expressly disclaims all liability for any content, accuracy, quality, advertising, products, services, or other materials available on or through these external sites.
We strongly encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. Our Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by our website. You should exercise caution and review the privacy statements applicable to the third-party websites and services you use.
Links to third-party websites do not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by FV2M of such websites or the content, products, advertising, or other materials presented on such websites, but are only for your convenience. FV2M does not endorse, warrant, or guarantee the products or services available through these external sites and will not be a party to or in any way monitor any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or services.
The third-party sites linked to our site may have different privacy policies and terms and conditions which are beyond our control. These websites may change their content, links, and policies without notice, and we may not have an opportunity to update our website to reflect these changes.
5. Compliance with Laws
However, under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal information if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency). The legal basis for disclosing personal information varies depending on the nature of the legal request. Here are some scenarios where we might be obligated to share your information.
Law Enforcement. In certain situations, law enforcement agencies may request data from us as part of their investigations. We review all requests carefully and disclose information only when we believe in good faith that the law requires it. This may include responding to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
Legal Compliance. If we are involved in a lawsuit or a governmental investigation, we may have to disclose information about the users of our website in response to a court order, subpoena, or other legal processes.
Protecting Rights and Safety. We may also disclose information when it’s necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law. It’s important to note that our policy is to notify you before responding to such requests, unless providing such notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, by court order we receive, or when we believe that providing notice would be futile, ineffective, or could create a risk of injury or bodily harm to an individual or group, or could create or increase a risk of fraud upon FV2M’s property, its users, and the Website itself.
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information (For EEA Visitors). For visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
If you have any additional questions or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us via the phone number, contact form or mailing address listed on this website. If our information practices change in a significant way, we will post the policy changes here.
Effective January 2024.